Proust Questionnaire: Christopher James Stagg's answers

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On Sat, 07 Feb 2009 05:38:44 UTC Christopher James Stagg (16) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To never be able to see my father again
Where would you like to live?: In a small town, where everybody knows everybody and life is simple
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To live near my father, living a humble yet peaceful life
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: To not meeting my own standards of behavior
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Holden Caulfield
Who are your favorite characters in history?: President James K. Polk, Socrates
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Gloria Steinem
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those who forego womanly tendencies while still remaining womanly
Your favorite painter?: Rembrandt
Your favorite musician?: Claude Debussy
The quality you most admire in a man?: Feminine qualities
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Manly virtues, honesty in friendship
Your favorite virtue?: Honesty
Your favorite occupation?: Video games, reading, sometimes writing
Who would you have liked to be?: Holden Caulfield
Your most marked characteristic?: A craving for precision and absolute truth, desire to help others
What do you most value in your friends?: Honesty and humility--provided they possess physical charm making them worth having
What is your principle defect?: Coldness; lack of understanding
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Never to have faced hardships
What would you like to be?: Myself
What is your favorite color?: Green
What is your favorite flower?: The snowdrop or orchid
What is your favorite bird?: The cardinal
Who are your favorite prose writers?: At the moment, J. D. Salinger
Who are your favorite poets?: Reinhold Niebuhr and Stephen Crane
Who are your heroes in real life?: My father
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: The strong women who raised and supported the men among men
What are your favorite names?: The names the woman of my life will give to my children
What is it you most dislike?: My worst qualities
What historical figures do you most despise?: Those who abuse power for selfish purposes, epsecially under a façade of benevolence
What event in military history do you most admire?: None--war is a detestable hell
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Irresistible charm and the ability to convey my thoughts orally
How would you like to die?: Knowing that I have done even a little good in the world, though none is recognized
What is your present state of mind?: Fear of misrepresenting myself, irritance at self-analysis
What is your motto?: "Learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow." (Isaiah 1:17)

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